Watch this Battabox video of children street hawkers in Nigeria...this has to be discouraged by the government and the presenters should be given an award for bringing the plight of these kids to the public......Nairaland should support this by making the video go viral until the Nigerian government put a stop to this........


So MODs pls do the needful on this topic


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSasYDZ1yow

Government should stop it?

To be fair to the OP. Mobile marketing is a very risky thing for a child to do, but you have to understand that there are families whose livelihood, depends on the stipends they make from this trading.

To me, as long as the child is not stopped from from being educated. Then they should be left alone.

I will be an hypocrite, if I am here chilling in an Air conditioned Office, and start saying the Government should ban it.

My younger ones and myself did it, the little money that came from it helped in one way or the other.

But, most importantly it did not disturb any of us going to School, and getting good grades .

If the Government bans them, what other measures would be put in place to supplement the families income? people need to understand that there are a lot of hungry family out there.

Allah sarki May God help us

okinlee:
...Nairaland should support this by making the video go viral until the Nigerian government put a stop to this...

THE GOOD NEWS? This is bad, very bad indeed!
THE BAD NEWS? It can never be totally stopped in Nigeria... and probably Saharan Africa.
REASON? As long as poverty thrives, this unfortunate phenomenon will continue to thrive

They keep passing a law everytime on child-hawking, and we keep seeing them on the road like everyday. The Government must do something.

The best way to tackle it is to improve tje lots of Nigerians not by passing a law prohibiting it. No enjoys this, especially the victims of these circumstances.

The best way to tackle it is to to discourage street hawking by improve the lots of Nigerians and not by passing a law prohibiting it. Nobody enjoys this, especially the victims of these circumstances.

Child hawking!!! We are yet to know what the problem of we Nigerian Citizens have. You all shouting it should stop eat 3 square meals comfortably even waste the rest if the food.. where as these kids struggle to get a meal per day.. talk more school. .

You will say this doesn't happen in the developed countries, but in those developed countries they have proper Child care setting whereby the children are well taken care off. If a child is noticed to be treated anyhow, they come pick them up to those centres. .. but what do we have here.. motherless babies home, juvenile correction centres ...
Before you barn something you better think well. . These same children if stopped from hawking during the day. . The energy would be saved to burgle at night... and you will be among the first to shout burn him burn him... oooo how great our thoughts are
You feed well, remember those who have nothing.
Focus on impacting a change.. Help even if it is just one off the street. ..The government would indirectly send them back to you if you refuse to help them off the street.